Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. In an open letter to the Deputy Minister of Public Safety dated March 9, 2011, the federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada and her provincial and territorial counterparts expressed their concerns with the government’s lawful access initiative, a series of bills which would grant new surveillance powers […]
Professor David Vaver of Osgoode Hall Law School & member of IP Osgoode’s Advisory Board. Can one’s bank account be spied on with impunity? In Ontario it seems so, if the decision of the Superior Court in Jones v. Tsige 2011 ONSC 1475 is to be believed.
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. April 7th, 2011, will be the 11th annual World Health Day. This year the World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging organizations to host events focusing on the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance. The improper use of medicines can create conditions where viruses, bacteria and parasites develop resistance […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. In a ruling heavy with statutory interpretation, the U.S. Supreme Court held on March 1st that for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, corporations have no “personal” privacy interests that would allow them to qualify for exceptions to the mandatory disclosure rules of the Act. AT&T, […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Facebook is moving forward with its plan to allow third-party developers and external websites to access users’ home address and phone numbers despite widespread criticisms.
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The UK Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled that re-publishing Twitter messages in a national newspaper is not an invasion of privacy.
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On January 26, 2011, Dalhousie University hosted its 4th annual Data Privacy Day. The half-day conference featured presenters from a wide variety of backgrounds, running the gamut from journalism to computer security to law. They spoke on topics ranging from browser security to compliance with the Personal Information […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In one of the sleaziest moves to hit the internet in a while (and that is a very low bar), online dating site Gotham Dating Partners Inc. announced this month that it plans to take the information from up to 340 million public Facebook […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a blog post on his personal website, Mozilla global privacy and public-policy leader Alexander Fowler revealed that upcoming releases of Firefox will include a “Do Not Track” feature designed to stop online advertisers from tracking users. Google announced the same day that it will release a […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University In 2004 the Southern Alberta Marijuana Investigation Team, a joint effort of the RCMP and the Calgary Police Service, requested that the utility company Enmax attach a digital recording ammeter (“DRA”) to a residence in Calgary suspected of housing a marijuana growing operation. A DRA is […]